nidorous
English
WOTD – 5 December 2008
Etymology
From nidor (“the unpleasant smell of some cooked animal substances”) + -ous, or from Medieval Latin nidorosus.
Adjective
nidorous (comparative more nidorous, superlative most nidorous)
- (literary) Emitting a strong, unpleasant odor, especially one like that of cooking fat or similar greasy substances.
- 2002, Jamie O'Neill, chapter 10, in At Swim, Two Boys, →ISBN, page 240:
- That old man's niderous whispered breath had entered into MacMurrough's heart an insufflation of—of what, exactly?
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